Greens & other
true believers lie because they think they are morally superior to you
and I

By Alan Carubaweb
posted January 7, 2002

Dennis T. Avery, a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute and a former
senior policy analyst for the US Department of State, recently took note
of sanctions applied to Steven R. Arnold, a former researcher at the Tulane
University Center for Bioenvironmental Research. The Federal Office of
Research Integrity found that Arnold had "committed scientific misconduct
by intentionally falsifying the research results published in the Journal
Science and by providing falsified and fabricated materials to investigating
officials."

His punishment? He will be unable to receive federal research funding
for five years. Avery called it "one of the most dramatic scientific
frauds of modern times," noting that the Tulane Center said it found
that various pesticides, safe when tested individually, were 1,000 times
more dangerous when tested together. It raised the spector of modern agriculture's
chemicals undermining the health of the human population and the natural
ecology through a blind spot in our regulatory testing." And it was
a lie.

This is part of the campaign of endless lies designed to secure the ban
of every single pesticide and herbicide that protects human health against
insect and rodent predators, and the vast food crops produced by American
farmers. In 1996 a book was published, "Our Stolen Future: Are We
Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? - A Scientific Detective
Story." Written by Theo Colbert, even the author her book admitted
it was based on mere suspicions. It has been cited, however, as proof
of yet another bogus threat conjured up by environmentalists. "

The book speculated that man-made chemicals were causing ailments ranging
from cancer to attention deficit disorder by disrupting our endocrine
systems," noted Avery. The book's forward was written by then Vice
President Al Gore. When Arnold's falsified research was published in 1996,
Carol Browner, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,
said, "The new study is the strongest evidence to date that combinations
of estrogenic materials may be potent enough to significantly increase
the risk of breast cancer, prostate cancer, birth defects and other major
health concerns."

As we now know, there is no such evidence, except that purposely created
to further the goal of the environmental movement to end the use of pesticides
and herbicides. Beginning with Rachel Carson's bogus and discredited "science"
in "Silent Spring", this attack on beneficial chemicals has
never ceased.

In a similar fashion, Michael Bellesile's book, "Arming America"
was seized upon by gun-control advocates as having demolished "the
myth" that individuals have the right to gun ownership. The book
asserted that private gun ownership was uncommon in early America. It
turns out that the author deliberately misinterpreted Colonial documents,
misquoted early federal laws, distorted historical accounts, and cited
San Francisco records that experts agree were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.

The willingness to lie regarding environmental issues was revealed in
December when it was found that federal and state wildlife biologists
had planted false evidence of a rare cat species in two national forests,
the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and Wenatchee National Forest in Washington
State. This is the same forest area that the Earth Liberation Front has
recently boasted of "spiking" trees in order to do injury to
lumberjacks culling trees for purposes of forest management.

The cascade of lies about everything environmental should, by now, have
convinced the public that US government officials responsible for setting
national policies and environmental groups seeking to determine what those
policies should be cannot be trusted. The public, however, has rarely
paid any attention to anything than the lies published by a compliant
and complacent mainstream media that has fully adopted the goals of the
environmental and animal rights movements.

The costs of these policies are astronomical. Billions of dollars are
wasted on wasteful programs said to "protect" the environment.
Billions of dollars are going to be allocated to States and environmental
groups to put more and more land aside from any use. Late on the evening
of December 20th, the Senate, without any public debate or a recall vote,
passed S-990, The American Wildlife Enhancement Act of 2001. We will never
know who voted for this act. This was the same tactic used to pass the
UN Convention on Desertification. Now $600 million in taxpayer dollars
will be given out for "the acquisition of an area of land or water
that is suitable or capable of being made suitable for feeding, resting
or breeding by wildlife." Translation: Any property can be designated
for virtual seizure. One can only pray the President will veto this full-scale
attack on property rights in America.

This is how environmental groups achieve their goals. They are goals
based in a consuming hatred of humankind and its need for food and shelter.
They are goals that are intended to undermine and destroy America's economic
power, based on access to its vast natural resources. They are goals intended
to strip Americans of the most fundamental right of self-defense. They
are the goals of those who believe they are morally superior to you and
I, and therefore have the right to subvert the truth to achieve total
control over our lives and our nation.

While Americans look to the Middle East and elsewhere, fearful of terrorist
organizations intent on harming our lives and our society, they continue
to ignore the internal enemies who, by stealth and deception, work to
destroy the progress of real science that protects and extends our lives,
and to undermine our most fundamental Constitutional protections.

If we lose this struggle, it will be because of our inertia and indifference.
The environmentalists, animal rights, and gun control advocates are counting
on that. In the political year ahead, their closest allies will be the
Democratic Party.